| A | B |
|---|
| John F Kennedy | Democrat candidate in 1960 |
| Richard M. Nixon | Republican candidate in 1960 |
| Fidel Castro | Cuban leader |
| flexible response | ability to fight any type of conflict |
| Peace Corps | missions to help developing countries |
| Alliance for Progress | a program to help Latin American countries |
| Bay of Pigs invasion | US attacked Cuba |
| Cuban missile crisis | Dispute with Russia and Cuba about removing missiles in Cuba |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Russian leader |
| hot line | telephone system between US and USSR |
| Nuclear Test Ban Treaty | nuclear weapons agreement - ended aboveground nuclear tests |
| Berlin Wall | Wall between Eastern and Western Germany built by Khrushchev |
| New Frontier | Kennedy's program to improve healthcare, education, economy, and civil rights |
| Equal Pay Act | required equal wages for equal work |
| deficit spending | gov. borrowing money in order to spend more than is received from taxes |
| space race | race to the moon by US and USSR |
| Warren Commission | investigation of Kennedy's assassination |
